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Fresh off a bounce in the polls, Hillary Clinton is promising to revitalize Pennsylvania communities hurt by a downturn in the coal and steel industries.
Jon Delano of KDKA-TV, part of CBS News, interviewed Clinton in Philadelphia on her policies for helping workers in these industries, and here is an extract:
JD: Can we bring back coal jobs as Donald Trump says? Can we bring back steel jobs?
HC: Well, we can certainly bring back steel jobs because once we really handle the unfair trade practices that have undercut our steel industry causing layoffs and plant closures, we’re going to make it really clear to the rest of the world we’re not sitting by and watching our steel industry go any further down.
JD: But what about coal?
HC: Coal is a different issue because we’ve got to figure out — is there a technology that can create clean energy from coal? “If we put our minds to it, we’re going to revitalize coal country. Towns that have been knocked flat, we’re going to help them get up. We can do that with infrastructure, with advanced manufacturing. We can do that with clean energy.”
Earlier in the primaries, the Donald Trump criticized president Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency for over-regulating the industry, particularly new emissions-control regulations on coal-fired power plants. He also stated, “I want clean coal, and we’re going to have clean coal and we’re going to have plenty of it. We’re going to have great, clean coal. We’re going to have an amazing mining business.”
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Clinton Talks Up Clean Coal: Revitalize Coal Country
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Clinton Talks Up Clean Coal: Revitalize Coal Country